| nordlead said: I completely understand where the retailers are coming from. It is the equivalent of selling McDonnalds burgers in Burger King take out bags and sandwich wrappers. I support the retailers and hope they force these companies to remove Steam from the retail copies of the game. I have no problem with Steam personally, but I don't want to install Steam just to play a game I bought in a brick and mortar store or off of a website like Amazon. |
While I agree that the practice of requiring Steam just to play a game bought through retail is questionable at best (and completely unnecessary), it's not so different from Games for Windows which effectively hobble retail games (no saving) if you don't set up an account and stay logged on while playing, even in single player offline modes.
But this may just continue to be the future of PC gaming in the interest of monitoring and controlling content.
